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Staphylococci in a Mental Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

S. S. Reza
S. S. Reza*
Affiliation:
Napsbury Hospital, near St. Albans, Herts
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The present study on the acquisition of Staphylococcus aureus by patients during their stay in a mental hospital, and the nasal carrier rate in the institutionalized patients, was prompted by the fact that in 1959 and 1960 193 out of a total of 407 deaths in Napsbury Hospital were due to lung infection, and that a bacteriological study of 45 unselected cases at necropsy in 1960 had suggested that the fatal lung infections were predominantly staphylococcal (Table I). The incidence of staphylococcal skin lesions, however, remained low, and only 147 cases of this kind were reported during 1959 and 1960 (4 per cent. per annum of the population) (Table II).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 110 , Issue 465 , March 1964 , pp. 240 - 243
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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